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The Experience of God: Chapter One

In chapter one, Hart mentions something that stood out in my opinion. He presents the argument on how it makes sense to believe in God and reason, and that it is contradictory to believe in reasoning without ultimately believening in God himself. In my opinion, I see this argument as being very black and white. I feel that Hart is trying to justify his way of thinking by making it seem that there are only two options, and that these two options are forced to coincide with each other. I disagree with this in particular, because I personally feel that you can believe in reason, but not have God be that reason. To me, putting all reason with the belief of God is just a way for Hart to have justification about why everything happens.

I don't want to say that the reason of God is not an option or that it isn't possible, however, I feel that it is senseless to put the reasoning of it being God's doing behind everything simply because there is not other known explanation for the occurrence. With that being said, I want to emphasize on the word "known." In my opinion, I think that is what it all comes down to when discussing reason. We may not know what the reason behind everything is, but just because we know something caused it doesn't mean that it is because of God himself. I feel that the argument is just a big circle about what we know and don't know, and how it can be justified.

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  1. Delanie DavisOctober 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM

    I agree with your argument because he has little justification for the belief in God other than that it gives an easy explanation for everything. He does not question other kinds of beliefs fully and merely pushes them aside with just the definition of God.

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